It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
ALAN COOPERI just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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